Federal Cloud Security Engineer — FedRAMP/DoD, Equity, Flexible PTO

VulnU; Austin, New York, Palo Alto, Washington (TX, NY, CA, District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible PTO

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Government Cloud Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain robust security controls across federal environments, including hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and compliance teams to embed security throughout the development lifecycle.

You will develop, implement, and leverage a range of security tools to detect threats, respond to incidents, and ensure alignment with industry standards and regulations, pursuing

Qualifications

• Active U.S. security clearance or eligible to obtain one.
• 3+ years of hands-on cloud security, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, or infrastructure engineering with a security focus.
• Experience with FedRAMP High or DoD IL5/IL6 authorizations, including continuous monitoring and assessor interactions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage security architecture for federal and DoD deployments across cloud and on-premises environments, aligned to FedRAMP High, DoD IL5/IL6, and NIST SP 800-53 controls.
• Implement and operate security tooling and services such as SIEM and log pipelines, EDR, vulnerability scanners, container runtime security, and policy-as-code enforcement.
• Build secure containerized, Kubernetes-managed environments leveraging Zero Trust principles.
• Secure Linux hosts, Kubernetes clusters, virtualization, and databases, including PKI and TLS, SSH and bastion access, and OS-level auditing.
• Design and enforce identity and access management, including SSO and federation, phishing-resistant MFA, RBAC, just-in-time privileged access, and periodic access reviews.
• Partner with network teams to secure firewalls, VPN and IPsec, DNS, load balancers and reverse proxies, VLAN and subnet segmentation, and routing and switching ACLs.
• Protect data encryption at rest and in transit, including envelope encryption and key management.
• Harden operating systems, network devices, databases, and container platforms against DISA STIGs and CIS Benchmarks, and run credentialed vulnerability and compliance scanning.

Skills

Cloud security

Azure security

SOC operations

PowerShell scripting

CI/CD security review

Tools

Azure Security Center

Defender/Sentinel

Entra ID

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Government Cloud Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain robust security controls across federal environments, including hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and compliance teams to embed security throughout the development lifecycle.

You will develop, implement, and leverage a range of security tools to detect threats, respond to incidents, and ensure alignment with industry standards and regulations, pursuing